James v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2012
1 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 5601 (Code Adam Act of 2003) · 42 U.S.C. § 5602 · 42 U.S.C. § 5633
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Flast v. Cohen · City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to assist State and local governments in removing juveniles from jails and lockups for adults.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.